RESOLUTION ON THE ATTITUDE TOWARD THE PEASANT MOVEMENT.
(Adopted by the Third Congress of the Party.)

Bearing in mind,

1) that the growing peasant movement, while spontaneous and politically unconscious, nevertheless inevitably turns against the existing order and against all remnants of serfdom in general;

2) that it is the task of Social-Democracy to support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order;

3) that consequently Social-Democracy must strive to purify the revolutionary-democratic content of the peasant movement from all reactionary admixtures, developing the revolutionary self-consciousness of the peasants and bringing their democratic demands to their conclusion;

4) that Social-Democracy, as the party of the proletariat, must in all cases and under all circumstances steadfastly strive toward the independent organization of the rural proletariat and explain to it the irreconcilable opposition between its interests and those of the peasant bourgeoisie—

The Third Congress of the R.S.-D.R.P. instructs all party organizations:

a) to agitate among wide strata of the people that Social-Democracy sets as its task the most energetic support of all revolutionary measures of the peasantry capable of improving its condition, up to and including the confiscation of landlord, state, church, monastic, and appanage lands;

b) as a practical slogan for agitation among the peasantry and as a means of introducing the greatest consciousness into the peasant movement, to put forward the necessity of the immediate organization of revolutionary peasant committees for the purpose of carrying out all revolutionary-democratic transformations in the interests of delivering the peasantry from police-bureaucratic and landlord oppression;

c) for the purpose of disorganizing the autocracy and supporting the revolutionary thrust against it, to call upon the peasantry and rural proletariat for all manner of political demonstrations, for collective refusal to pay taxes and levies, for refusal to fulfill military service and to obey the decrees and orders of the government and its agents;

d) to strive toward the independent organization of the rural proletariat, toward its merger with the urban proletariat under the banner of the Social-Democratic Party, and toward securing representation of the rural proletariat in the peasant committees.